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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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There are thoughts we must not think
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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